The Cleveland Browns made a decent charge towards a divisional title this season, and the contribution of quarterback Joe Flacco played a large part in their success. The Texans put the Browns to the sword in the wildcard round but there are more positives than negatives in Cleveland. Flacco at 39 is something of a Cinderella story, coming into an injury plagued side, off the couch as they say, and provided magic in the regular season run in.

He threw for three hundred plus yards in 4 successive games, the longest streak in the team’s history and the eldest QB to do that since Tom Brady. “We’d absolutely love to have Joe back, he’s a good quarterback,” Browns GM Andrew Berry said Monday. “I guess maybe a little bit similar to Jacoby (Brissett) last year. It depends, right? I want to bring all of our good players back, but there are constraints to that. … Would have no problem having Joe back.” Flacco deserves to sign a contract with the Browns, even if it is only for a year. The Browns need some more sprinkle dust, don’t we all?

Content creator Petros Augousti has been a sportswriter for more than 20 years, working for some of the biggest media role-players globally including stints at Reuters, GQ magazine, Sports Illustrated and Multi-choice (SuperSport). He was a communications director for a professional soccer team for eight years, at one of the biggest clubs in Africa. He has been head of content for an award-winning multi-national free-to-play sports platform, headquartered out of Dubai, and focussing on Premier League soccer.